This article from The New Statesman website is a sobering read for those of us lucky enough not to worry too much about the odd £20,
Whitehall’s own analysis finds the cut will have a “catastrophic” impact, warning “homelessness and poverty are likely to rise, and food banks usage will soar”. More than half a million people face being pulled below the poverty line, including 200,000 children, as a result of this change, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an anti-poverty organisation.
Finished reading: The Things You Find In Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett. Grab a free copy here 📚
Who’s a clever boy? 🐕
Many thank to Nicky, Doug and the rest of the DJ Dog Training Club team for your help getting us through.
Listening to Reprise by Moby whilst writing a proposal. 🎶
Abandoned agricultural machinery 📷
The new feeding station for the birds is open for business 🌱
Saturday ride
Listening to From Dreams to Dust by The Felice Brothers on Tidal. I first discovered this band when I was looking for music to play on my Monday Music Mix show on ITfM Radio back in the day. 🎶
“This is a mad way to run the country,” confessed a member of the government.
Whether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce.
Bravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, “I think I’m OK,” as, ashen-faced, looking nauseous and clammy, they were en route to see the prime minister before promptly being sacked.
And farce when, as legend has it, on several occasions, would-be ministers end up jobless, because the post-it notes with their name on fell off the board. Forgotten, their career plunged to the floor too.
Read more on BBC News: What’s Boris Johnson’s reshuffle really all about?
I have three invites to Literal.club if anyone is interested https://literal.club/invite/D7H0BFU 📚
This is the first track released from the new album, Everything was Forever, due February 2022. 🎶
I’m enjoying using the Argentum Camera app on my iPhone. Here are a couple of images from today’s early morning walk with “the boy” over the fields. 📷
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word—
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Source: A Choice of Kipling’s Verse (1943)
Sony a6300, Sony E 16-70 F4 ZA OSS, processed in Luminar AI 📷
Listening to A Beautiful Life by Heartless Bastards on Tidal. This band had passed me by, but pleased that they’re now on my radar. This album will be high on my “Best of 2021” list in December. 🎶
I got a haircut this morning, and this is a candid shot of Isaac prepping the chair I took on my iPhone 11 using the Argentum app. The image is as shot with no post-processing.
Thanks to @TheDimPause on Micro.blog for pointing me in the direction of the Argentum app, which captures Black & White images. 📷
